Hong Kong 1980: Me and the Queen Swapped Clothes

Meanwhile, Cheng Long called Fang Yanmei: "Amei, are you free lately? There's a movie that needs a supporting role, and I'd like you to give it a try. What's there to be afraid of? Didn't you say you've been taking acting classes lately? Just go and do a test shoot."

"Alright then." Fang Yanmei encouraged herself and decided to give it a try.

After all, she had taken acting classes for several days and perhaps made some progress? Since Cheng Long had given her this rare opportunity, she felt she should give it a try. After all, Cheng Kui'an had told her that in this industry, the most precious thing is opportunity. She couldn't refuse Cheng Long's offer.

"Waaaaah."

When Fang Yanmei came home that night, she buried herself in the quilt and cried loudly.

"It's too hard, too hard, how can it be so hard? It's not as simple as Ah Ming said. Everyone can perform, but I just stood there like a block of wood."

At this moment, Fang Yanmei believed Qin Weiming's words that the acting teacher was just selling courses. After all, her performance today was so terrible that it left a deep impression on everyone present. If she hadn't gotten this supporting role through connections, the others would probably have looked even more disgusted.

Out of consideration for Cheng Long's feelings, no one has said anything openly yet, but the gossip still reached Fang Yanmei's ears. She kept a straight face and obediently listened to the on-set director and the filming director scolding her back and forth, and then being scolded by Cheng Long. Only after several rounds did she finally go home feeling wronged.

Finally, she couldn't hold back anymore and burst into tears at home, even having thoughts of leaving the industry.

"I'm just not cut out for this. I was really delusional. I can only sing a few songs, and I actually thought I could be on the big screen." After crying, Fang Yanmei secretly made the decision to quit. She decided to stop here. She had already embarrassed herself enough today.

Compared to that, she should go back to her old life, at least she wouldn't have to be so humiliated as she is today.

"Amei, Amei, there's a phone call for you outside!" Just then, the voice of a kind old lady came to Fang Yanmei's rescue.

"I'm here." Fang Yanmei immediately came out of the room, looking at her grandmother with some gratitude: "Who is it?"

"I don't know, it's a young man's voice, answer it quickly," the landlady said immediately.

Fang Yanmei answered the phone, puzzled. Qin Weiming's voice came from the other end: "Amei, is that you? I'm asking you, how was your day? Why didn't you call me so late? I thought something had happened to you."

"Ah Ming, what were you thinking before that you would send me to act in a movie? I'm not you, so capable, knowing big stars as your older sisters, knowing Brother Long, and even writing scripts. I'm just an ordinary person. Sending me to act in a movie? People will laugh their heads off. Me, acting in a movie?"

Perhaps because she had just cried, Fang Yanmei's voice still had a strong nasal tone, making her speech unclear. Qin Weiming, on the other end of the receiver, didn't say anything and just listened quietly as Fang Yanmei complained.

After Fang Yanmei gradually calmed down and began to realize that her actions of criticizing Qin Weiming were somewhat inappropriate, she discovered that Qin Weiming had not said a word all night.

"Hey, A-Ming, are you still listening?" Fang Yanmei asked cautiously. She still felt guilty, thinking she shouldn't have been so harsh on Qin Weiming and kept criticizing him.

However, she still harbored a sliver of hope that Qin Weiming might not be angry.

Just like Qin Weiming, whom she had known before, Qin Weiming never seemed to be angry and continued to take care of her gently.

This time, Qin Weiming was different. After listening to Fang Yanmei's complaints and accusations, Qin Weiming's calm voice clearly reached her ears: "Amei, if you want to continue working in the nightlife industry, then continue. No one is stopping you. I want to pull you onto a more difficult path, but it's up to you to choose. I can't decide your life for you. Besides, do you really think your previous path was easy?"

"What?" Fang Yanmei couldn't help but ask.

Qin Weiming continued, "You're still young and people are willing to take you, but what about when you're twenty or thirty? Working in nightclubs has a very short window of opportunity. Once that window is over, how will you support yourself? Will you rely on your mother and brother? You might as well rely on me."

"Get lost! What are you going to do to support me? You're younger than me! I'm not as useless as you say! Just wait and see, I can support myself! You should take care of yourself first!" Fang Yanmei's temper was completely ignited. She felt that Qin Weiming was mocking her and looking down on her past experiences. Moreover, those years of constantly running around, although tough, had greatly honed Fang Yanmei's abilities and helped her grow.

Qin Weiming's undisguised ridicule and contempt made Fang Yanmei feel even worse.

If it were someone else doing this, Fang Yanmei might argue back or even argue more fiercely with the other person, but what if the other person is Qin Weiming?

Fang Yanmei seemed to have lost her aggressiveness. She had just run back to her room when the tears she had just stopped started falling uncontrollably again.

Unfortunately, Fang Yanmei originally had some good feelings towards Qin Weiming. Those feelings might just be a little friendship between friends, or perhaps it was the camaraderie they shared because of the strange incident that had happened between them.

However, Fang Yanmei once believed that Qin Weiming was the only person in the world who truly understood her.

Until she discovered that Qin Weiming also looked down on her, and even said that after she turned twenty or thirty, she would have nowhere to go and would have to rely on him to take care of her if she didn't have a skill.

This was a great humiliation for Fang Yanmei, who had grown up being independent and self-reliant.

After crying for a while, Fang Yanmei angrily grabbed the clothes on the table and went out. She had lived here for so long, but she hadn't had time to go out for a stroll.

However, on her way to and from class, Fang Yanmei still saw a bar on the roadside. It looked quite large, and although it was late at night, this was the time when bars were really starting to get lively.

Fang Yanmei simply stopped attending classes and went to bars to drink, while also observing how the business was doing and which venue the resident singers were performing at. This place was far from where she used to live, and Fang Yanmei was not familiar with the power dynamics here.

So she only planned to be a guest, to come here with her eyes but not her mouth, just to take a look.

If business is good here, Fang Yanmei plans to talk to the boss herself. Since Qin Weiming doesn't think much of her, she doesn't want to listen to Qin Weiming's arrangements to take any more classes. Instead, she will go back to the old path she chose.